Coval

Simulation & Evaluation for Voice and Chat Agents

Chief of Staff

$120K - $200KSan Francisco, CA, US
Job type
Full-time
Role
Operations
Experience
Any (new grads ok)
Visa
US citizen/visa only
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Brooke Hopkins
Brooke Hopkins
Founder

About the role

Chief of Staff — Coval

Coval empowers companies to deploy and monitor conversational agents with confidence. As enterprises rush to adopt AI across their teams, we have seen explosive demand for reliability. These companies need rigorous simulation and evaluation. To deliver this at scale, we need a Chief of Staff.


Your Impact

You will shape how Coval scales in all facets of our company, including GTM, operations, product, hiring, and strategic execution.


What You’ll Do

  • Work directly with the CEO to drive company priorities, strategic planning, and cross-functional alignment.
  • Partner closely with customers to translate insights into product and GTM strategies.
  • Assist with internal operations, such as hiring pipelines, dashboards, investor updates.
  • Lead special projects. This might mean preparing for a major enterprise deal, evaluating a new product line, scoping partnership opportunities.

Who You Are

  • You are scrappy, self-motivated, and a ruthless prioritizer.
  • You are customer-obsessed and will center customer needs in everything you do.
  • You thrive in the chaos of building zero-to-one systems.

What you’ll need

  • Prior experience in a high-velocity environment, ideally in the role of a Founder, early operator, Chief of Staff, or product-adjacent role
  • Strong analytical and strategic thinking skills
  • Exceptional written and verbal communication
  • A talent for operational excellence

Bonus:

  • Experience supporting or working with enterprise sales motions
  • Product intuition around AI agents, LLMs, or developer tooling
  • Demonstrated ability to manage cross-functional projects end-to-end

P.S.

We work 100% in-person in our San Francisco office. This is an extremely collaborative, high-velocity environment — perfect for someone who wants to build a category-defining company from the ground floor.

About Coval

Why we do what we do

The future is agentic

No one's sure what an agentic future will look like. But we're certain AI agents are here to stay. And Coval will be the infrastructure that powers that. As AI adoption accelerates, one thing is clear: testing and reliability are more critical than ever.

We're committed to reliability

Creating reliable agents is the next frontier. Coval empowers companies to not just create agents that delight customers, but to deploy them with absolute confidence in their performance. We're building the tools that transform agent testing from a challenge into a competitive advantage.

We're shaping the future

Evaluation infrastructure will massively shape the AI-agent era. There's no question about if it will happen - it's about who will build it and when. Coval is positioning itself to be THE definitive platform for agentic testing, and we're just getting started.

Coval
Founded:2024
Batch:S24
Team Size:5
Status:
Active
Founders
Brooke Hopkins
Brooke Hopkins
Founder